Sunday, October 03, 2010

Australia's dark heart: a miscarriage of justice in Alice Springs...

One after the other, the photographs of the dead man fall. There is Kwementyaye walking Waffles the dog on the beach; there he is on the platform of Alice Springs station; there he is blowing his birthday candles out, "surrounded by girls," says his fiancĂ©e, Jade. "And smiling. He was always smiling." And then I see it – the saddest picture of all. It's Jade with Kwementyaye just a few weeks before his death. It's shocking to see how different she looked before he died; before she knew the full story of the beating, the racist taunts and the firing of the gun; before all the rage and injustice that was to follow the phone call on that cold Saturday morning last July. More...

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